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Register at: https://www.taliesinartscentre.co.uk/en/all-events?id=60383&returnURL=/en/all-events?page=1
From: 25 Jan 2025, 7:30 p.m.To: 25 Jan 2025, 9:14 p.m.
Location: Taliesin Arts Centre, Swansea University, Singleton Park, SA2 8PZ, Swansea
IN MEMORY OF THE LATE DAME MAGGIE SMITH
This movie tells the true story of Alan Bennett's strained friendship with Miss Mary Shepherd, an eccentric homeless woman who Bennett befriended in the 1970s before allowing her temporarily to park her Bedford van in the driveway of his Camden house. She stayed there for fifteen years. As the story develops, Bennett learns that Miss Shepherd is really Margaret Fairchild (died 1989), a former gifted pupil of pianist Alfred Cortot. She had played Chopin in a promenade concert, tried to become a nun, was committed to an institution by her brother, escaped, had an accident when her van was hit by a motorcyclist for which she believed herself to blame, and thereafter lived in fear of arrest.
Contact: Taliesin Arts Centre (Email: info@taliesinartscentre.co.uk) - Telephone: 01792 602060
Website: https://www.taliesinartscentre.co.uk/en/all-events?id=60383
Event created by: n.s.mills